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Astronomers detect most distant star to date
Apr 3, 2018The Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the light from a very bright star over 9.3 billion lights years away.
Young T. rex is '1-in-100-million' discovery
Mar 31, 2018Palaeontologists have unearthed the well-preserved remains of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex in Montana.
Giant prehistoric lion was as tall as a man
Mar 26, 2018Fossil hunters have discovered the skull of a huge prehistoric lion that roamed Africa 200,000 years ago.
Mystery of lioness with a mane has been solved
Mar 22, 2018Researchers have finally determined why a zoo lioness has mysteriously sprouted mane-like head and neck hair.
Plane in Russia drops three tons of gold bars
VIDEO Mar 16, 2018Bars worth up to $368 million rained down after the aircraft suffered damage during takeoff on Thursday.
Largest ever family tree links 13 million people
VIDEO Mar 5, 2018Covering 11 generations over a period of 500 years, the family tree is thought to be the largest ever created.
New penguin 'supercolony' found in Antarctica
VIDEO Mar 2, 2018Scientists have discovered a huge colony of over 1.5 million rare penguins on a remote Antarctic island.
Astronomers detect signal from the first stars
VIDEO Feb 28, 2018A table-sized antenna has picked up the fingerprints of the first ever stars to emerge after the Big Bang.
Doomsday seed vault hits the one million mark
VIDEO Feb 26, 2018The most recent consignment to arrive at the facility has brought its total number of deposits up to 1,059,646.
Mystery surrounds zoo lioness with a mane
Feb 25, 2018Zoologists have been left puzzled by a female lion that has mysteriously sprouted mane-like head and neck hair.
Land plants arrived much earlier than thought
Feb 20, 2018It is believed that plants first arose on land 100 million years earlier than previous studies had suggested.
Earth photographed from 62 million km away
Feb 15, 2018NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe has captured a stunning new image of the Earth against the blackness of space.
Probe takes farthest ever images from Earth
Feb 12, 2018NASA's New Horizons probe has made history again by capturing images 3.79 billion miles from the Earth.
'Alien visitor' asteroid had a violent past
Feb 12, 2018The space rock known as 'Oumuamua is thought to have been tumbling around chaotically for billions of years.
Evidence of extragalactic planets discovered
Feb 8, 2018Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
Millions of viruses are raining down every day
Feb 7, 2018A new study has revealed that large numbers of viruses may be falling from the sky on a daily basis.
Were dinosaurs a victim of their own success?
Feb 7, 2018The dinosaurs' total domination of our planet may have played a major role in their eventual demise.
Spider with a tail found preserved in amber
Feb 5, 2018Scientists have identified a species of long-tailed proto-spider dating back over 100 million years.
Dinosaur tracks found outside NASA Goddard
VIDEO Feb 1, 2018100 million-year-old dinosaur and mammal tracks have been found at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Chunk of North America is part of Australia
Jan 23, 2018Scientists have identified an area of Australia that broke away from North America 1.7 billion years ago.
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